If
you are planning to go Central America -- or just love learning about
birds -- I highly recommend this book by noted Belize naturalist (and
good friend) Carolyn Miller.
The
book, published by the Belize Audubon Society, is now available in the United States, and the book sells for between $15 and $20. The descriptions of the birds ring
true, and the illustrations are top-notch.
I am ordering multiple copies of the book to save mailing costs. If you are interested, e-mail me.
When I go to Belize in February with the Stiles Thomas Adventure Tours group, we are planning to bring a few of these books for children we know there.
Here's a link for more information about this invaluable book.
If you are planning to go Central America -- or just love learning about birds -- I highly recommend this book by noted Belize naturalist (and good friend) Carolyn Miller.
The book, published by the Belize Audubon Society, is hard to get in the states, by I am encouraging Buteo Books to stock the book. The book sells for $15, and it is a bargain. The descriptions of the birds ring true, and the illustrations are top-notch.
I am trying to order multiple copies of the book to save mailing costs. If you are interested, e-mail me.
Here's a link for more information about this invaluable book.
Stiles Thomas Tours, Inc., is proud to announce that it is now accepting orders for the latest addition to its increasingly popular line of adventure gear: The official Belize tour cap.
The brushed-cotton cap has been called "the perfect acquisition for anyone who has ever been to Belize on a legendary Thomas tour or who someday aspires to participate."
Contact Stiles at 201-327-3470.
This is not a purchase you want to dawdle on. Previous Stiles Thomas merchandise has sold for four-digit sums on eBay, including an uninsured "Stiles Thomas Insurance Agency" ashtray.
One of my favorite places, next to the Celery Farm, is the country of Belize in general and the village of Crooked Tree in particular.
Belize is a developing country, and tourism is a major industry. A couple of friends of mine, DeeDee Burnside and Georgina Thomas, got the idea of doing a coloring book for the younger children of the Crooked Tree School after hearing how some of the boys like to shoot birds with their slingshots.
(A wonderful account of this is on Diane Brown's "Oak in the Seed blog. Here is the link to that post.)
The two women decided to help the children realize that hurting the birds was not just a bad idea, but that in the long run learning about the birds would be far more beneficial to them and the nation's tourism industry than stoning the birds.
DeeDee did the drawings, and Georgie got her church to handle the printings costs.
They will deliver the coloring books -- along with several pairs of binoculars for these schoolchildren (read Diane's post on that here) -- when we go to Belize next month.
Click "Continue reading..." to see one of the wonderful illustrations from the book. Feel free to print it out, color it yourself and send it to me. The winner will win something or other... and no fair using a clay-colored Crayola.
